Cloud-Native PAM for NHIs: Service Accounts, Machine Identities, and Others

Built to secure and manage access for all identities in your environment, both human and non-human.

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Non-human identities now outnumber humans in most cloud environments—and they rarely rotate credentials or follow clean-up policies. Britive delivers dynamic, policy-driven control to enforce Zero Standing Privileges for every automated identity.

Unmanaged NHI Access Creates Hidden Risk

Excessive, Always-On Privileges

Most machine identities are over-permissioned and granted indefinite access—which attackers can exploit long after the initial task is done.

Lack Robust Verification

Unlike human users, NHIs can't verify access with MFA or explain anomalous behavior, making intent-based detection and predictions harder.

Secrets Sprawl and Static Tokens

Service accounts often rely on static keys or credentials stored in CI/CD pipelines, config files, or shared vaults for routine access.

Invisibility in Traditional IAM

Non-human and machine identities often fall outside centralized IAM and governance tools, making them harder to track and audit or revoke access for.

Escalating Risk with New Identity Capabilities

AI-powered agents and systems can act autonomously and sometimes unpredictably across systems. When they inherit broad access with little oversight, they introduce a lot of potential risk.

Extending Modern Access Management to Non-Human Identities

Temporary, Ephemeral Access

Credentials and access are short-lived. Machine access is granted only when needed for routine tasks and automatically revoked without impacting workflows.

Unified Access Policies

The same policies and control planes are applied to human, machine, and AI identities for consistent enforcement.

Dynamic Access Management

Contextual information like task scope, system, and risk level are used to assess access dynamically.

Full Visibility and Auditability

Access events are automatically logged and clearly attributed for improved lifecycle management and visibility.

Securing Access Across Cloud Workloads and Machine Scales

Britive extends Zero Trust identity security to non-human identities with just-in-time provisioning and precise privilege controls to mitigate secrets sprawl and access risks.

Temporary, Scoped Access for NHIs

Assign access just-in-time (JIT) based on context and remove them automatically when the task is completed. Tokenless, short-lived access reduces secrets sprawl and static access risk.

Centralized Visibility for All Identities

Eliminate the visibility gap and the audit headache. Monitor both NHI and human user access and activity in real time in a single, comprehensive view.

Integrations for DevOps & Automation

Bring security and operational efficiency together. Embed NHI security into your DevOps workflows such as CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, and other automations with out-of-the-box integrations and API-first controls.

Unified Platform for Human & Machine Identities

No more fragmented tooling. Britive supports consistent enforcement of Zero Standing Privileges for every type of identity across the entire cloud through a single pane of glass.

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No more fragmented policies across human and non-human identities. Get in touch with the team to enforce Zero Standing Privileges for every identity in your environment.

FAQ

Britive is purpose-built for cloud environments, unlike legacy PAM tools designed for on-prem data centers, or other agent and proxy-based PAM platforms.

Yes! Britive is API-first and integration-friendly, allowing seamless out-of-the-box integrations with cloud infrastructure providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.), SSO & Identity Providers (Okta, Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD, Ping Identity), SIEM & Logging Tools (Splunk, Datadog, etc.) and DevOps & CI/CD Pipelines (Terraform, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, etc.).

You can find a starting list of our integrations here.

Britive can be fully deployed in a matter of hours or days with our agentless and proxyless design to minimize the number of configuration changes needed.

Yes, Britive has an open API, SDK, and CLI tool.

Yes, Britive offers the ability to import privileged accounts from other systems for seamless integration and centralized management. Privileged accounts from cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as on-premises systems, can be imported into Britive. Automated discovery simplifies the process, identifying existing accounts for streamlined integration.

Yes, Britive offers "break glass" access capabilities, including support for managing emergency access to critical accounts such as AWS root accounts. This ensures operational continuity and secure access during emergencies. This includes strict access policies, logging, and enforcement of strong authentication methods for enhanced security.

Break glass access is also strictly monitored and governed by approval workflows, ensuring that usage is authorized and fully auditable.

Yes, Britive's session recording capability is lightweight and easy to deploy for selective monitoring of RDP and SSH sessions.

Britive in the Real World

Financial Services Company Streamlines Access Management

Forbes Saves Costs & Removes Standing Privileges to Align with Zero Trust Security

Fortune 500 Retail Giant Eliminates Standing Access Across Growing Cloud Footprint

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Privileged human identities managed

Static Privileges Eliminated

Static privileges eliminated across all cloud providers

Non-human identities access managed

Identity profiles managed in GCP

Total on and off-boarding time, reduced from 3 days